Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...names go, Amazon is a perfect choice. (Not least because its ticker symbol, AMZN, is a license-plate version of how the stock has performed.) The wild Amazon River, with its limitless branches, remains an ideal metaphor for a company that now sells everything from power tools to CDs, and is eagerly looking for new areas of expansion. It's possible to argue that Bezos didn't master much more than an evolution of commerce, replacing old-fashioned stores with a centralized sales and shipping center. But even that one change, he notes, grabbing a favorite word, is "huge...
Five years later, they got their dream, the 25-unit Southside Park Cohousing. Front porches on the neo-Victorians look out on the surrounding community. Inside, kitchen windows and plate-glass back doors face one another over the common green space, as if two dozen families had one huge backyard. In the central building, residents share a dining room, playroom, mailboxes, laundry room, TV, exercise equipment and a lounge with a fireplace. They take turns cooking the three common meals served each week. Afterward, they relish the opportunity to share cars, swap furniture and get together without planning...
...think I've gotten something similar to that from Annenberg food. It's not the cleanest place. My plate has been dirty and my silverware has had crud on it several times...
...time, he even threw a man through a plate-glass window after an altercation...
...bacteria grown in plate number four were courtesy of the banister leading to the Loker Reading Room on the second floor of the Widener Library...